報告描述

"Currently, there are more than 300 enterprises in China’s tapioca starch industry. According to the statistics, in the pressing seasons of 2009/2010, the domestic tapioca output reached 6.6 million tons, and tapioca starch output reached 680,000 tons. Compared with the pressing season in 2008/2009, tapioca output increased by 16%-17% and tapioca starch output increased about 17%. In the pressing season of 2010/2011, domestic tapioca starch output reached 850,000 tons.

In September 2011, Typhoon “Nesat” and “Nalgae” caused serious influence to Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and southern China. As the world’s main producing areas, Thailand, Vietnam and Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong Zhanjiang in southern China didn’t avoid the misfortune. It is estimated that the world’s tapioca starch output in 2011/12 will significantly reduced.

Guangxi is China's largest tapioca growing area. In 2011, the acreage increased steadily and reached 3.6512 million mu. During the ""Eleventh Five-Year"" period, tapioca area and output in Guangxi accounted for more than 60% all over the country. Guangdong ranked in the second place, accounted for about 13%. Guangdong and Guangxi regions account more than 73% of the total tapioca growing areas. Therefore, the concentration grade of China’s tapioca starch production is relatively high.

At present, China has more than 300 of all kinds of tapioca starch production enterprises, but most enterprises own backward production technology, high production costs, low profits and poor economic returns. The number of tapioca starch enterprises which with annual output of more than 50,000 tons is less than 10. Thus it is difficult to obtain economics of scale.

During the “Eleventh Five-Year” period, China’s tapioca industry has been rapid developed and laid a solid industrial base. With the arrival of “Twelfth Five-Year” plan, tapioca industry has a new round of development opportunities. In the “Twelfth Five-Year” plan, tapioca is listed as one of the main directions in the hot zone and set a new target for tapioca industry; planning that by 2015, tapioca industry should strive to achieve 80% coverage of improved variety and high yield technology, total output of fresh tapioca to reach 7.7 million tons and the average starch content in fresh tapioca to reach more than 30%.